David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures

The David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures is awarded annually by the Producers Guild of America (PGA) at the Producers Guild of America Awards ceremonies recognizing the individual's outstanding body of work in motion pictures. The award category was instituted in 1989 and first awarded at the 1st Producers Guild Awards.

History

The award is named after American film producer David O. Selznick (1902–1965). As of the 34th Producers Guild of America Awards, there have been 40 awards presented.

Award winners

Year	Image	Recipient(s)	Notes	Nationality	Ref.
1989 (1st)		Hal Roach	Roach is the 1st recipient of this award. He founded Hal Roach Studios in 1914 and produced the films of silent film comedians Laurel and Hardy and Harold Lloyd.	USA
1990 (2nd)		Stanley Kramer	A prolific filmmaker who directed "message pictures" such as The Defiant Ones (1958), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).	USA
1991 (3rd)		Pandro S. Berman	He received six nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Gay Divorcee (1934), Alice Adams and Top Hat (both 1935), Stage Door (1937), Father of the Bride (1950), and Ivanhoe (1952).	USA
1992 (4th)		Richard D. Zanuck	Together Zanuck and Brown headed their own production company turning out mega hits like The Sting (1973), Jaws (1975), and Driving Miss Daisy (1989).	USA
		David Brown		USA
1993 (5th)		Saul Zaentz	A producer who won the Academy Award for Best Picture for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Amadeus (1984), and The English Patient (1996).	USA
1994 (6th)		Howard W. Koch	Kock was appointed the head of film production at Paramount Pictures in 1964 from 1966 when he left to set up his own production company.	USA
1995 (7th)		Walter Mirisch	He was the president and executive head of the independent film production company The Mirisch Corporation, which he formed in 1957. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture for In the Heat of the Night (1967).	USA
1996 (8th)		Billy Wilder	An acclaimed and prolific filmmaker who directed such films as Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), Some Like It Hot (1959), and The Apartment (1960).	USA
1997 (9th)		Clint Eastwood	Eastwood has produced and directed numerous films including Unforgiven (1992), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Mystic River (2003), and Million Dollar Baby (2004).	USA
1998 (10th)		Steven Bochco	Bochco developed a number of television series, including Hill Street Blues; L.A. Law; Doogie Howser, M.D.; Cop Rock; and NYPD Blue.	USA
1999 (11th)		Jerry Bruckheimer	Bruckheimer has produced films like Flashdance (1983), The Rock (1995), Crimson Tide (1995), Con Air (1997), Armageddon (1998), Enemy of the State (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), as well as the Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Bad Boys, Pirates of the Caribbean, and National Treasure franchises.	USA
2000 (12th)		Brian Grazer	Grazer is the producing partner of Ron Howard and together they created Imagine Entertainment in 1986. He produced numerous projects including the films Splash (1984), Apollo 13 (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Frost/Nixon (2008).	USA
2001 (13th)		Lawrence Gordon	He specializes in producing action-oriented films and other genres. Some of his most popular productions include 48 Hours (1982), Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2 (1990), Predator 2 (1990), Point Break (1991), Boogie Nights (1997), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and Prey (2022).	USA
2002 (14th)		Robert Evans	Evans was a legendary studio executive and producer best known for his work on Rosemary's Baby (1968), Love Story (1970), The Godfather (1972), and Chinatown (1974).	USA
2003 (15th)		Dino De Laurentiis	He was an Italian film producer and businessman who produced numerous films.	Italy
2004 (16th)		Laura Ziskin	She was the executive producer of Pretty Woman (1990) and producer of Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007).	USA
2005 (17th)		Roger Corman	A trailblazer in the world of independent film producing numerous B films of the 1950s and 1960s.	USA
2006 (18th)		Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher		USA
2007 (19th)		Frank Marshall	Together Marshall and his wife Kennedy founded the production company Amblin Entertainment, along with Steven Spielberg. In 1991, he founded, with Kennedy, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company.	USA
		Kathleen Kennedy		USA
2008 (20th)		Michael Douglas	An American film actor who has produced numerous films including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The China Syndrome (1979), Romancing the Stone (1984), The Jewel of the Nile (1985), and The Rainmaker (1997).	USA
2009 (21st)		John Lasseter	Lasseter acted as the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as well as the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering.[1]	USA
2010 (22nd)		Scott Rudin	Rudin is a producer of numerous projects ranging from film, television and theatre becoming one of the 19 people to win the Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Oscar, and Tony Award.	USA	[2]
2011 (23rd)		Steven Spielberg	A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director in history.[3] Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment in 1980 and DreamWorks in 1994, and he has served as a producer for many successful films and television series.	USA	[4]
2012 (24th)		Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan	Together Fellner and Bevan founded the production company Working Title Films in 1983 which has produced numerous British and America films.	UK  New Zealand
2013 (25th)		Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli	Broccoli and Wilson are best known for producing numerous films within the James Bond franchise.	USA  UK
2014 (26th)		Gale Anne Hurd	Hurd is the founder of Valhalla Entertainment (formerly Pacific Western Productions),[5] and a former recording secretary for the Producers Guild of America.[6]	USA
2015 (27th)		David Heyman	Heyman is best known for producing the Harry Potter, the Fantastic Beasts, and the Paddington franchise films. He also has produced films for Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, and Quentin Tarantino.	UK
2016 (28th)		Irwin Winkler	Winkler produced numerous films starting with the Elvis Presley musical Double Trouble (1967) followed by, the critically acclaimed films They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Rocky (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The Right Stuff (1983), and Goodfellas (1990).	USA
2017 (29th)		Charles Roven	Roven is the president and co-founder of Atlas Entertainment and produced the superhero films The Dark Knight Trilogy (2008), Man of Steel (2012), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and Suicide Squad (2016).[7]	USA	[8]
2018 (30th)		Kevin Feige	He has been the president of Marvel Studios and the primary producer of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise since 2007.	USA	[9]
2019 (31st)		Brad Pitt,	In 2001, they co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment.[10] They produced The Departed (2006), 12 Years a Slave (2013), and Moonlight (2016), all of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and were also nominated for The Tree of Life (2011), Moneyball (2011), Selma (2014), and The Big Short (2015).	USA	[11]
		Dede Gardner		USA
		Jeremy Kleiner		USA
2020 (32nd)	not awarded
2021 (33rd)		Mary Parent	She is a former President of Production for Universal Pictures and she co-founded Disruption Entertainment in 2011, a company with a first-look deal at Paramount Pictures, and co-produces films with Legendary Entertainment.[12] She was formerly the Chairperson of Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Worldwide Motion Picture Group.[13]	USA	[14]
2022 (34th)		Tom Cruise	Cruise formed Cruise/Wagner Productions in 1993,[15] and the company has since co-produced several of Cruise's films, the first being Mission: Impossible in 1996 which was also Cruise's first project as a producer. Cruise has produced many films in which he appeared, including Mission: Impossible, Without Limits, Mission: Impossible 2, The Others and Vanilla Sky.[16]	USA	[17]
2023 (35th)		Martin Scorsese	Scorsese is a legendary and acclaimed filmmaker known for directing such iconic films as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990), The Departed (2006), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Irishman (2019), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).	USA	[18]
2024 (36th)		Chris Meledandri	Meledandri is the founder and CEO of the animation studio Illumination and the second animation producer to receive the award.	USA	[19]

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